Weekly Times | LINDENOW Football Club’s Darren Allen has been cleared of serious injury from an incident that resulted in the East Gippsland Football League match being abandoned.
Allen was injured during a tackle he laid against an Orbost Snowy Rovers player in the final quarter of the Round 1 match on Saturday.
Lindenow football director Chris Daffey said Allen reported feeling unwell as he was being helped off the ground.
“He was leaving the ground and the trainers were with him,” Daffey said.
“The trainers put him down on to the ground and called for a stretcher and when Darren informed the trainers of head and neck pain every precaution was taken and an ambulance was called.”
Daffey said Allen was taken to hospital in Bairnsdale but scans cleared him of any serious injury and he was discharged on Saturday night.
As the match was unable to recommence within a 30-minute time frame, it was abandoned.
The final result was recorded as a Lindenow win, 18.17 (125) to 4.7 (31).
Daffey thanked the trainers from both sides and a local doctor who helped at the scene.
In one of the other Round 1 matches, Stratford won the Battle of the Avon against old rival Boisdale-Briagolong, which joined the East Gippsland league from the North Gippsland competition this season.
Boisdale-Briagolong did not score in the opening quarter, but rallied in the second term by kicking 3.1 to Stratford’s 1.4.
Stratford edged further in front after half-time and won the match by 27 points.
